Serpent Column: A Cultural Biography
(Part of the Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture Series)
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The Serpent Column, a bronze sculpture that has stood in Delphi and Constantinople, today Istanbul, is a Greek representation of the Near Eastern primordial combat myth: it is Typhon, a dragon defeated by Zeus, and also Python slain by Apollo. The column was created after the Battle of Plataia (479 BC), where the sky was dominated by serpentine constellations and by the spiralling tails of the Milky Way. It was erected as a votive for Apollo and as...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0190209062
ISBN13:9780190209063
Release Date:August 2016
Publisher:Oxford Univ PR
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.50 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.4" x 8.4"
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